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Taking the DJ performance to a new level is a tall task. Since DJs stepped outside of the club and onto the stage, they've struggled with making the often-obscure craft translate to their crowd. What began as confusion over cross-faders and bad vi...

Writing about a listening session at a Los Angeles clothing store is about as exciting as detailing the events of a family birthday party. While the music is playing, it's great to catch up with familiar faces over free drinks, but there's very li...

As The Game, LA rapper Jayceon Taylor released three incredibly solid albums, but is now switching it up a little bit for his upcoming fourth release, "The R.E.D. Album" (December 8th). He's redacted the The and will now be referred to simply as G...

Like they did at her debut Coachella performance three years ago, a bunch of people exited stage-left well before Kid Sister finished her set. In 2007, it was easy to attribute the mass exodus to any number of things -- the lure of other acts, Coa...

It's easy to think that underground hip-hop is dead. The Internet has equalized everything to the point that there isn't much difference between Mos Def's and Mickey Factz's marketing plan, or Elzhi's and Eminem's, or Wale's and Will.i.am's. Durin...

Snoop Dogg has always donned blue, but Malice N Wonderland might just be aimed at the Red States and the Fox News constituency. First came the album's black velvet-worthy cover art by Mister Cartoon, and last night Snoop hosted WWE Raw in Jacksonv...